I am the eighth of seventeen children from my Father but the first surviving child of my mother’s four living children.
I joined the Celestial Church in 1976 due to demonic attacks and oppression. I was taken to the church by my stepmother. It was in Celestial Church of Christ that I received the gift of Holy Spirit and was born again and filled with his presence.
The year 1976 was a year with mixed emotions. That was the year I was appointed as the students- President of my high school, it was the same year I took ill and almost died. I was in the hospital for five months, bedridden, and was on hospital drip throughout that period.
By divine design that was the same year that the Pastor Founder Papa SBJ Oshoffa moved to Nigeria. What the hospital could not do, God used the prayers of believers and an elderly man from my village to effect the cure. The devil planned to cripple me just as God was about to establish my roots in the Celestial Church of Christ.
The years 1977 through the mid-eighties were my spiritual formative years in the Celestial Church of Christ. During that period, I worshiped and served in several Celestial Church of Christ churches. I traveled extensively, visiting most CCC branches to preach and pray for the sick as led by the Holy Spirit. To name a few: CCC Crudas road Sapele, Upper Igun Parish, Benin City, Adelabu Parish Surulere Lagos etc.
In the year 1984, after I had a setback in my job as a journalist with the Nigerian Observer, Papa SBJ Oshoffa appeared to me in a dream and asked me to start a church and become a full-time minister. As a result of that directive by December 12, 1984, my wife and I invited our friends and started CCC Uniben Parish together from the scratch.
Less than five months after we began this Church from scratch in the Ugbowo Campus of the University of Benin, the Holy Spirit instructed me to visit with Papa SBJ Oshoffa in Ketu at the International Headquarters of CCC to share my dreams and prophecies with SBJO about succession in the month of March (28th) 1985. Papa commented in Yoruba language that day as I shared my revelations with him, that I was telling the truth. The next day Friday, March 29th, 1985 Papa SBJ Oshoffa laid hands on me as Moses laid hands on Joshua and asked me to request what I wanted God to give to me, as Elijah asked Elisha, and also asked me to hold his robe while I made the request.